Now, if you're not aware of these, watching them when signed in will allow you to get a special helmet, albeit probably cosmetic, or with largely negligible stats (especially later in the game). However, it's interesting information. This one makes us better acquainted with the human members of the Pathfinder crew, and if you pause the video, you can read a little dossier on each member.

I love this 'contradiction' between the AI Briefings and the Cinematic Trailers.

The former are build up as recruiting Vids, showing you what the AI expect, giving you this feeling of 'yeah, awesome, i wanna be part of it, what a great adventure'. The ladder on the other hand show the truth, that sometime on the journey, something really got sideways, making you feel like oh 'sh....,what just happened, we are all doomed' .

Awesome piece of work.

It just annoying that although I chose 'English' as my preferred language, I always get to see them in German, due to my IP being a german one. A Common bug and they haven't fixed it yet.

That is weird and very annoying. But I think that is a really interesting distinction between the two types of videos. And I wonder if the briefings will be an actual thing in the game, having at least a mention about doing them at some point, probably when all Hell breaks loose.

Well they maybe part of Andromeda's Codex, but except that they are tailored to interest and recruit you, the player, for the Initiative.

While the cinematic trailers are, as always, a combination of actual ingame events that will happen, as you progress. You won't see all of them, as the appearance depends on your decisions and some will be the outcome of good decisions, others of maybe bad ones.

Their actual combination is contigent upon the rule of awesomeness to act as an appertizer.

That's very weird. My language is neither English nor German, but I connect (99% of times) via German (or 1% Netherlands) VPN server and I have no problems with watching English version right of the bat. :blinkblink:

It is not lifethreatening, merely amnoying. And lucky for me the dubbing seems to better this time. I only played once per gender a german version of the trilogy. The lack of enthusiasm, wrong translation, misplaced emphasising..... although the voice actors are renowned and quite good on other projects, here they weren't.

And maleshep's VAs outperformed the femshep one in every scene, although they even changed the male VA in ME2.

Anyway I will stick to the original English version, as it helps me to improve my own English a bit and feels more authentic to me.